August 25, 2014

What's Your Mix?

My English great grandfather David Simpson

It occurred to me a few days ago that I don't know my mix. By "mix" I mean the % of my ethnic ancestors I have in my bloodline. I know I have Irish, English, Dutch, American and Canadian but as to percentage of each group, I've never bothered to figure it out. So here goes!I'm only going to go back 5 generations because that way every branch of my ancestors is known to me. I can go back 15-20 generations on some lines but not my Irish McGinnis family. I don't want to assume they are Irish going back from my 2nd great grandfather Joseph McGinnis.

So - if I take my lineage back to my 2nd great grandparents, who's in the mix? And where were they born?

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Once you track your ancestor back to Ireland, and he is in Belfast, and his name is Todd - what's the nationality? I picked Scotch! All the French in Quebec, I track as French. And then Leipzig, Germany vs. Vienna Austria? German, Prussian, Saxon, Austrian? Sometimes I just pick! But I made Excel pie charts for my kids for their 4th grade family history project. It was fun! 6.25% Swedish,1.56% Native American Chippewa, 10.94% French, 4.69% Scotch, 26.56% English, 25% German, 25% Austrian.

All of my great grandparents and 2 time great grandparents that I know about were born in the USA. Not sure about my masternal grandfather's paternal grandfather. I do have a DNA percentage breakdown from 23 and me.

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